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Febrtjaby 28,1857.] THE LE1DE1. 199
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OUR CIVILIZATION ? ¦ . THE WORKHOUSE SYS...
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A BURGLAR SHOT BY A CLERGYMAN. The resid...
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The Mormonitks at CiiKSTEUFriixi ) .—-Se...
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Continental .Notes. France. Cojlonelt Ou...
Europe must say of us , that , when another Italian army baa covered itself with so much glory , we are only kept in guard over our brethren , who in every point desire what we desire , that which brings general prosperity , and hence also the prosperity of our families . Now that cries are uttered every where in behalf of this unfortunate people , must we point at their breasts our bayonets and our swords ? and can such a state of things long continue ? Yonr Majesty will certainly provide , according to reason and prudence , for the future ; this , we repeat it , is the desire of the whole army , "which wishes to preserve its honour and its conscience , but does not think it can do so as long as your Majesty refuses to satify the common desire . "
Some citizens of Modena and Keggio have presented Count Cavour with a medallion . On one of its faces is stamped the effigy of the President of the Sardinian Council , round which is inscribed— " To Count Camille de Cavour , Modena and Reggio , " and on the other a group of allegorical figures , representing the towns of Modena Reggio , to which Piedmont , armed , is extending her and land , and under which are the words , " Quod JDeus convmadt , homo non separet . "
GREECE . The Senate ha 9 rejected the financial arrangement concerted with the protecting powera . The Ministers , ha . ving deliberated thereon , communicated the opposition of the Senate to the representatives of those powers .
Febrtjaby 28,1857.] The Le1de1. 199
Febrtjaby 28 , 1857 . ] THE LE 1 DE 1 . 199
Our Civilization ? ¦ . The Workhouse Sys...
OUR CIVILIZATION ? ¦ . THE WORKHOUSE SYSTEM . A poor man , named Frederick Taylor , appeared before Mr . Selfe , at the Thames office , to make a complaint against Mr . Kirsting , one of the relieving officers of the Stepney Union . He stated that he had , been out of employment for six months , and was in "very great distress , and his wife was far advanced in pregnancy . He had applied to Mr . Kirsting at tlie Ratcliff Workhouse for a midwifery order , and told him that he could not afford to pay for a doctor , and his wife's accouchement was expected hourly . He was directed to call again in the evening , which he did . BIr . Kirsting then said he could not give' him . the order , as it was not an
urgent case . He also asked Mr . Kirsting for a littUVVe lief , and told him that he and his family -were without bread . Mr . Kirsting refused him any relief , but said lie must come again on the following Monday ( it was then Thursday ) , and in the meantime he would visit his family . The officer , however , had not been to him , and he was in continual expectation that his wife would be taken in labour . Mr . Selfe caused inquiries to be made , and the result was that the chairman of the Board of Guardians attended , and expressed his disapproval of Mr . Kirsting ' s conduct . The magistrate , -who observed that he often heard of cases from the Stepney Union winch " stirred hia blood , " gave the man live shillings from the poor-box .
Two old men , named Campbell anl Bethell , inmates of St . Saviour ' s workhouse , preferred a charge at the Southwark police court against Milljbank , the porter of the Union , whom they accused of ill-using and violently assaulting them . Campbell , who seemed to be about sixty , and who trembled excessively , apparently from ULness and want , stated that he had formerly carried on the trade of baker and confectioner , which he had been compelled to givo up in consequence of a severe attack of palsy . One night , about a week ago , feeling extremely ill and faint from want of nourishment and skelter , he went to the Union workhouse and requested admittance . After waiting two hours , the porter at length admitted him , and ( according to tho man ' s statement ) put him to sleep in a miserable bed . On the following morning , when Millbank and another man
came into lna room to tell him to rise , he complained of being ruptured , and begged that tho doctor might be fetched . Millbank told him that this was all nonsense , And that he must get up ; and at tho same time lie forcibly dragged him out of bed , whilo hia companion struck Jvj . ni several violent blows , from tho effects of which he was still suffering , and almost tore off the little clothing that he had on him . Ho had since voluntarily left the workhouse , partly in consequence of ' this ill-treatment , and partly owing to the very scanty quantity oC food he had been supplied with whilo ho remained at tho Union . The other complainant , William Uethell , made a very similar charge against Millbank , who , ho said , had el iven lai
scarcy g n any bread with his bono soup , and , whoa ho complained to tho master , Millbunk throw him down stairs , and so severely injured him , that tho blood gushed from his cars . The porter entirely denied tho statements of th « two old men , the latter of whom had but a short time previously been sentenced to a week ' s imprisonment from this court , for disorderl y behaviour in tho workhouse , and , on tho present occasion , had threatened to strike with a red-hot poker tuo man ^ i ^ kopt tlj 0 y ^^ hou ,,, ) bread . A countercharge was likewise made against Campbell , whom BUlban k denied having used , while ho was in bed , in the j n-anner ho described . Ho hud merely searched him on Hearing him rattle somo money , nnd , when tho man said
he was ruptured , nun came , instead of which he left the place . Mr . Burchani said that the charges against Millbank had not been proved , and he must therefore dismiss the ease .
A Burglar Shot By A Clergyman. The Resid...
A BURGLAR SHOT BY A CLERGYMAN . The residence of the Jiev . Mr . jSTodder , near Ash over , Derbyshire , was broken into about a week ago by two men , supposed to belong to a gang of burglars infesting the neighbouring county of Nottingham . Mr . Nodder ' s house is situated in a lonely and secluded spot , at the distance of half a mile from the village . It happened that , about one or two o'clock in the morning , Mrs . Nodder was awakened b } ' the cries of her baby ' , who slept in a cot in the same room with herself , and , while attending to it , heard a low , slight noise , which she thought at first was occasioned by her husband poking the fire in the room adjoining . She therefore took no heed of it , but presently afterwards heard the same noise again , and , looking through Iier bedroom window , saw a man standing close to the casement . Mrs . Nodder thereupon hastily withdrew , and , catching her child up in her arms , rushed out of the room , and closed the door , which she afterwards fastened on the outside . In the meantime , several panes of glass , and a portion of the framework of the window , were broken , and two men entered the house , having climbed to the window of Mrs . Nodder ' s room , by means of a ladder which they had taken from the stackyard . A Miss Heely , niece of Mr . Nodder , who slept in a room adjoining , which the thieves subsequently entered , was so alarmed , that she got out of the window of her apartment into the yard , fell a height of fourteen feet , and ran in her night-dress to the rectory-house in the village , three-quarters of a mile distant . Mrs . Nodder , after securing the door of her bedroom , went into that in which her husband slept , and aroused him , on which he got up and armed himself -with a pair of loaded horse-pistols , with which he threatened to shoot the burglars , who had by this time succeeded in forcing the door of Mrs . Nodder ' s room and gaming the outer passage . The men , nevertheless , broke open the door , which had likewise been previously locked by Mrs . Nodder , and one of them walked into the room , when , after a little parleying , Mr . Nodder fired one of his pistols , and shot him in the abdomen . The thieves fled directly , and effected their escape by jumping into the yard from a-window adjoining the one by-which ¦ Miss Heely had already retreated . No traces of them could be discovered at . the time ; but a short time afterwards , a butcher , travelling from Kirksworth . to . Chesterfield market , overtook a man lying by the roadside , who was severely wounded , and who was probably the burglar shot by Mr . Nodder . This person the butcher took into his cart , and drove to Chesterfield , whence the wounded man rode by omnibus to the railway station , and there took a ticket for Derby . The wounded burglar has been tracked to a house where he lived , and been arrested in bed . lie is badly hurt . Miss Heely , the young lady who escaped by the window , aud who was much hurt , is recovering .
The Mormonitks At Ciiksteufriixi ) .—-Se...
The Mormonitks at CiiKSTEUFriixi ) . — -Several Mormonites were baptized by nightn few days ago in the river Rothcr , just outside Chesterfield . The scene is describi-d as having been most disgraceful . The men were naked , and they walked down to the river side through rows of women , some of whom were waiting their turn to be dipped by the " priest , " who stood in the middle of the stream . A great deal of indecent jesting-went on , and he . banks echoed with shouts of laughter . This ceremony was conducted by the li ght of a few candles stuck into the mud l > v the river side .
Ihk ( jAkottk . —A garotte adventure is thus narrated in the Times by the sufferer , a Mr . T . II . Lea : — " I bad occasion on Tuesday evening last ( the 17 th inst . ) to cross the neighbourhood of Hnmpstead-hoatli . 1 therefore proceeded well armed on my journey , keeping my eyes on tho alert . I had gone about hull" the distance when I was startled on perceiving a lantern about twelve yards in advance of me , with tliu rays directed full on my body . I immediately pulled a revolver from my pocket , and advanced towards the light . I had , however , only time to step about a couple of yards when an arm was thrown tightly round iny neck , which caused me groat pain , at the same instant the L-iiiUtii disappeared , and 1 felt u violent blow on the hoad . 1
remember no more after this till finding myself lying on the ground experiencing an uncomfortable sensation in my throat . Tho money which I had about mo-a-viz ., two 5 A notes nnd some . silver , with a gold . snuff-box . —¦ had been Htolen . "—Lieutenant Ihenl , of the Jtoyal Marines , was attacked , on the night of Thursday week , in tho II igh-street , Chatham , by three men , one of whom seized him by the throat from behind . The lieutenant , however , escaped from his ' gr « Kp and hud a severe struggle with the men , one of whom he . sc-eured , and the two others have been . since appreliemk'd . Puriny tho struggle , ono of tho men got possession of Lieutenant Brant'h watch .
DiCATiis kkom - Starvation . —Throe inquests have been held nt the London Hospital on the bodies of men who * have died from destitution . Two wero workmen ;
the third was a Malay seaman . The jury expressed great indignation at the closing of the casual relief ward of the Wlriteehapel workhouse . Middlesex : Sessions . — Frederick Goodwin , a boy who pleaded Guilty of throwing a brick at an express train on the London and North-Western Railway , has been sentenced to three months' hard labour , the first and last weeks to be solitary . This was a mitigated sentence , on account of the boy ' s years and of this being a first offence . The full punishment would have been two years' imprisonment .: — -. " William Britton and Alfred Wheeler , the two boys convicted , on . the evidence of an accomplice , of robbing a beer shop in the neighbourhood of St . John ' s Wood , have been sentenced to twelve months' hard labour each . [[ This case was erroneously referred , in our last week ' s impression , to the Central Criminal Court , which was not sitting , instead of to the Middlesex Sessions . 1
CnDELTV ro Gikls . — An inquest has been held at Davlish , Devonshire , on the body of a girl , aged fourteen , who was alleged to have died through the illtreatment which she received from her father , a shoemaker , named Newberry . The coroner ' s jury did not consider the evidence sufficient to justify them in returning , a . verdict of manslaughter , but requested the coroner to censure Newberry for his conduct to the child . Since then , the-magistrates for the division have
caused him to be apprehended ; and last Saturday , after hearing evidence , they committed him for trial at the ensuing Assizes on the charge of manslaughter Mr . Walker , the haberdasher in the neighbourhood of Shoreditch charged with cruel neglect nnd ill , treatment of his orphan niece , . was finally examined by the Worship-street magistrate ' on Wednesday , and discharged , Mr . D'Eyncourt observing that he did not think an indictment could be supported . At the same time , he highly reprobated the man ' s inhumanity .
A Gang ov Uukglai : s—consisting . of-two ' -. and two women , -who are supposed to have been concerned in several recent robberies—were arrested on Friday ¦ week in a house at the foot of Chatham lines . One of the women lias been set at ¦ ¦ liberty on becoming an approver ; the rest are committed for trial . Assize ;? . — -The Spring Assizes of . some of the provincial towns have opened this week . At Appleby , three young men have been tried for night poaching , and for an attack on the gamekeeper of the Earl of Lonsdale . They . were found Guilty , but recommended to mercy by the jury , on account of their youth . Two were sentenced to hvo < months' imprisonment , and the third to four months ' . — John Jackson has been found Guilty at Carlisle ' of uttering a forged bl note , and was sentenced to transportation for fifteen years .
Alt . KGKD l'bllJKZZLEMENT BY A TAX-CoiXKCTOB . — Mr . J . Cope , recently collector of taxes at DarJaston , lias been committed for trial on a charge of obtaining money from several persons on pretence of its being due for land-tax . He Mas admitted to bail . Uor . iusr . Y u \ t Edishuihjii . — The shop of a jeweller and optician at Edinburgh was broken open in the course of the night of Friday week , and property to the amount ofnenrly 15 U 0 / . was carried of )' . Aijlkgki ) jVirraira to Poison a Motiiku Catherine Speed , an exceedingly ugly young womanof such
, ( hvariish stature that her head barely reached the top of the bar , was charged at llow-slree ' t , on Tuesday , upon suspicion of . having administered to Catherine Speed , her mother , n dose of twenty grains of antimony , with intent to poison her . The mother was a lodging-houso keeper in ( j xafton-stroct East , and w ; is seventy-seven years of nyc . The daughter lived with her , but they were not on xevy friendly terms , and it was alleged that the nee-used p » L the antimony into the mother ' s Ijccr . Considerable niokncss ensued , but no mortal result was ft-. ami . The case was adjournud .
l ' isoeiMsiNa Aisor . TJON . —A gontloninn of largo property , nainwt Joseph J lopgood , who wna once in practice us a . surgeon , wu . i charged before the mayor and magistrates oi' Tivirton on Monday with administering to Mrs . Craze , the widow of an ironmonger of the same town , and Air whom the accused was acting a . s trustee , a noxious drug , with intent to procure abortion . It was admitted by . Mrs . ( Jruzc that before and after her husband's ( loath , she bad had criminal intercourse with Mr . llopgood . Slio had herself requested him to give her something wSiich would induce abortion , and be gave her two pills ; but they wore not of n noxious character . Nevertheless , lit ; was committed i ' ov trial ; but buil to tho extent of 10 U 0 / . v >' nn accepted .
. Skvkkai , Uuimu-auikh have been committed within tho last few < luys in Yorkshire . Tiik IIuuski . kss Took . —The Lord Mayor , accompanied by Homes otlior gentlemen connected with tho City , lia . s been aguiu inquiring into the night accommodation provided lor tho homeless poor of London . On Monday nifiht they visited the Refuge in Playhouse-yard , Whitecmss-. strcot . Hero tlusy found between five and six hundred men , women , and young persons , including infants , housed for the night . Theso individuals rcceivo half a pound of bread on their admittance , and tho same amount when they leave in tho morning :. Tho visiting parly then proceeded to thuCil . y of London Union at Uo w , whore they found only nine persona in tlie ward fur tho reception of tho cu . suul poor . It waa
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 28, 1857, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_28021857/page/7/
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